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Over at Zunerama, Harvey Chute posted a short commentary about your listening habits and how this can be affected by the Zune Cards. Basicly, he goes on about how some people might change their listening habits knowing that others are watching what you are listening to.

Like many, no doubt, aapold admits that he sometimes gravitates to songs that will look “cool”, while avoiding the “uncool” tracks that he knows will show up to other forum members.

Many of us confessed to a similar tendency. After spending months building up your indie cred, do you really want the last ten tracks on your Zune card to be from John Denver’s greatest hits?

Now, this isn’t a jab at Zunerama, but I thought people that wanted to look cool bought iPods? No, seriously though, I could care less what people think of what I listen to. If you are that worried that listening to Barry Manilow will get you laughed at, just don’t use the social aspect. I listen to almost anything, so you might see all sorts of weird stuff if you watch my card. In fact, if I was not on the road and my Zune was plugged in, you’d see that I listed to 5 different versions of Avril Lavinge’s “Girlfriend” on the way to work today. (they are in different languages, kinda cool)

Anyhow, I can see that some people might want to look cool, but why? Why would anyone REALLY CARE what others think of what jams others are listening to? Is that kind of superficial?

What do you think?